| [epf-dev] [EPF::BUP] SIGs Conference Calls |
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hiho, As stated in the Development Plan discussed at the initial
committers meeting (described here: http://www.eclipse.org/epf/general/f2f_Atl_minutes.php)
one of the goals for the next milestone of 3/1/2006 is “Agree on
structure of BUP, agree on how to structure of BUP into work units, principles
and resources to evolve each unit”. During a conference call on February 1, the group agreed
that the current content donated by IBM to the Eclipse Foundation had the right
disciplines and phases. There was a concern that Model Driven Development
should be moved out of the minimal process to a plug-in. It was observed
that the current content does not appropriately cover the core principle of
collaboration. The relevant meeting minutes are here: http://www.eclipse.org/epf/bup_component/20060201_meeting_minutes.php,
and the vision for the BUP component that references collaboration as a core
principle is here: http://www.eclipse.org/epf/bup_component/bup_vision.php. In the last Basic Unified Process component conference call
on February 8, 2006, we discussed breaking up into special interest groups to
work on the process content. This was deemed to be the best way to tackle
collaborating on the diverse subject matter of the whole process. We
decided to break the process up by discipline, then have a special interest
group for overarching issues such as the discussion of the phases and other
broad guidance, plus another special interest group for Model Driven Development
that would be broken out of the minimal basic process as its own plug-in.
Relevant meeting minutes are here: http://www.eclipse.org/epf/bup_component/20060208_meeting_notes.php. Various participants already on the road to becoming
committers proclaimed their interest in various parts of the process: We discussed participation in the various SIGS. The
results are as below: -
Requirements: Number Six, Telelogic,
UBC, IBM -
Architecture: Number Six, IBM, ESI -
Development: Number Six, IBM -
Test: Number Six, IBM -
Project Management: Number Six, IBM,
2ProMentor, Covansys -
Change Management: Number Six, IBM,
Telelogic -
Overarching: IBM, Number Six, UBC,
2ProMentor, Telelogic -
Model-Driven Development: IBM, ESI CapGemini and BearingPoint will also be committers, but they
did not have representation on the call. If you are on track to become an official committer and are
not listed above, please let me know. If you are a committer and you
would like to extend your interest into more areas, please let me know; we
would love to have as much representation from the community as possible. In the next week we will have a set of conference calls to
discuss each process area to get a leg up on the goal for the subsequent
milestone of “Freeze structural information for BUP”. We need
to start discussing what we have and what we feel we need to have as soon as
possible. If you would like to be a contributor, but you will not be
at a level of contributor, you are welcome to participate in the calls. You
can download the process content here: http://www.eclipse.org/epf/downloads.php.
We would like everyone participating in the calls to be fully educated in
the relevant area. Here is the plan for the upcoming conference calls: -
Wednesday, February 22, 8am-10am
PST: Architecture and Development -
Thursday, February 23, 11am-noon
PST: Test -
Thursday, February 23, 1pm-2pm PST: Requirements -
Monday February 27, 8am-10am PST: Project
Management and Overarching Issues -
Thursday, February 23, 1pm-2pm PST: Change
Management We do not plan to have a call regarding the MDD content in
the next week. Another message will be sent out with the phone
number. I just wanted to get this out so it could be on everyone’s
calendars.
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